masurium Chem.
(məˈz(j)ʊərɪəm)
[mod.L. (W. Noddack et al. 1925, in Sitzungsber. d. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissenschaften 409), f. G. Masur-en name of a region in NE. Poland + -ium.]
A name proposed for the element of atomic number 43 (later named technetium), which was claimed to have been discovered spectroscopically in certain platinum ores.
| 1925 Glasgow Herald 16 June 6 These new elements have been named by their discoverers ‘Masurium’, after the Masurian Lake region, and ‘Rhenium’, after the Rhineland. 1941 Chem. & Industry 11 Oct. 729/2 Japanese investigators have studied the decay curves of the chemically separated masurium fraction from molybdenum after bombardment with slow neutrons and they distinguished the two masurium isotopes 99 and 101. 1947 [see illinium]. 1962 J. H. White Inorg. Chem. xxv. 480 Technetium..has been called masurium, and it has not yet been isolated from natural minerals. |